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Handy Reference Dictionary of Iban and English
Includes most common Iban words with English equivalents and or explanations. Also includes most common and many scientific English words with Iban equivalents and or explanations. With an introduction of 60 pages, 925 pages with almost 50,000 entries. 13,000 Iban-English and 36,000 English-Iban. An indespensable tool for government personnel, businessmen, linguists, academicians, every student from primary to university, every library and home use.
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02
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Leka Timang
Contains full texts of varieties of ritual incantations. Written in classical Iban. Timang is all about the invitations and arrivals of the principal spirit guests at major ritual festivals proper (Gawai Amat/Asal) and dream rituals (Gawai Mimpi) organized by the Iban who are still observing their traditional beliefs. Symbolically, the lemambang(bard), in his invocations, takes his fellow celebrants and listeners through spirit territory and eventually introduces the principal spirit guests to the festival. The spirit guests are invited to bless the proceedings and to bring benefits on all concerned, conferring charms for so many purposes.
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07
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Pantun Iban: Vol. 2
Written in classical Iban. Contains an anthology of selected pantun, songs of Iban tropes. The Iban use trobes to express their feelings of sadness and happiness, hatred and admiration, curse and compliment, and to channel their requests for favour, needs and wants. These are elements of a serious pantun. However, some pantun are just entertainment,usually carrying romantic messages. This book offers both. Pantun is worth learning and understanding, especially if you wish to be sung to and offered a glass of rice wine.
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08
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$10.00
Pelian
Contains a complete text of shamanic chants recited by a well-known and experienced Iban shaman, Manang Bangga anak Anggat of Debak, Betong, Sarawak. The book has information on the background and origins of Iban shamanism, including information on Iban's traditional beliefs. These traditional beliefs necessitate the practice of the traditional shamanic ceremony called the belian and the subsequent existence of the chants, the pelian. In this book, there are altogether 58 episodes of the wonderful chants. Each episode has its own synopsis bearing the purpose, proceeding and significance. All the episodes are full of poetically structured stanzas which normally end in neatly patterned rhymes. The chants are indeed a repertoire of the rich literature of the Iban language which subscribes to the effectiveness and mystery of the healing power of the shamanic practice.
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013
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Renung Semain
Written in classical language of the Iban. It contains a full text of a song of romance, which is widely recited in Betong Division of Sarawak. The song is sung by a professional singer. It describes the intimacy between a pair of long-house youngsters who are in love. It speaks of their fulfilments and frustrations, their successes and failures, their triumphs and tribulations. But more importantly, the book attempts to inform readers about the various social courting etiquettes the young lovers have to adhere to in order to maintain their own integrity and that of their families. In order to know these etiquettes and other social norms governing passionate courtships in the Iban traditional community, readers will need this book to refer to.
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012
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Renung Adat
Written in classical Iban. The book attempts to examine the various forms and texts of renung adat as they are sung in Sibu, Kapit and Betong Divisions of Sarawak, Malaysia. Renung Adat, a sacred chant, comprises of three categories in Sibu and Kapit Divisions, renung nama'ka tuah, renung ngalu petara, and renung sebayan. Renung Nama'ka Tuah is a song sung during numerous ritual festivals proper (Gawai Amat/Asal)and dream rituals (Gawai Mimpi) for welcoming possessions and riches brought into the family by deities through material manifestations of spiritual blessings. Renung Ngalu Antu is for inviting and welcoming deities and the spirits who will visit us during the riutal festivals. Renung Sebayan is sung during ritual festival for the deads (Ngelumbung). Its purpose is for inviting the spirits of the dead relatives to the feast whereby mourning regulations for the deceased's family are lifted. The spirits of the deads are expected to give charms for the well-beings of the surviving relatives such as for longevity, prosperity and happiness. Renung Adat Melah Pinang is used in Betong Division in the celebration of a wedding ceremony. Scholars of Iban culture must have a copy of this book in their custody, for it will also give them insights into aspects of rites relating to renung adat.
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011
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Sabak
Written in classical Iban language. Contains full texts of major varieties of Iban dirge, Sabak Bangkai and Sabak Lumbung, commonly used in Kapit and Sibu Divisions of Sarawak. Sabak is a dirge. It is a poem of ament for the dead, narrating the journey of his/her soul from the land of the living and the dead called Sebayan. In this book, professional singers of the dirge will be taking the readers, together with the soul of the deceased, along the journey between these two worlds, passing by the various dwellings of forest and abodes of the sacred birds and animals, etc.
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09
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$22.00
Sampi and Biau
This book is an anthology of sampi and biau. The anthology is made up of 22 sampi and 29 biau, specially selected from the so many sampi and biau recited by the prominent bards during a sampi and biau workshop held in Saratok on 16th and 17th February 1997. Being the first of its kind, the book describes fully well what sampi and biau are all about. People who are interested in reading and understanding sampi and biau (another major component of the Iban oral tradition), will find this book useful.
Product Code:
010
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$22.00
Seeds of Play, Words of Power: An Ethnographic Study of Iban Shamanic Chants
Based on research begun in 1975, this publication is an extended ethnographic study of Iban shamanic songs and their role in the practice of traditional Iban healing. Called leka pelian, these songs constitute the gist (leka) of rituals known as pelian, which are performed by Iban manang or shamans, and intended, among other things, to recover errant souls, erect protective spirit barriers, slay spirits, or effect a proper separation between the living and the dead.
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05
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$49.00
The Encyclopedia of Iban Studies, Vols. 1-4
A four-volume work of more than 2,000 pages, with articles from 40 Contributing Editors, with wrap-around binding. Contains more than 4,000 entries, with articles on Basketry, Bee trees, Birth, Botany, Burials, Brookes and the Iban, Colonialism, Contributions to Anthropological Theory, Development, Death, Expeditions, Farming, Festivals, Headhunting, Illnesses, Language, Logic, Malaysia, Material culture, Rituals, Shamanism, and Weaving.
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04
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$300.00
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